Item 6 Appendix 1 Development Plan Scheme

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHOR­ITY Plan­ning Com­mit­tee Agenda Item 6 Appendix | 16/08/2019 AGENDA ITEM 6 APPENDIX I DEVEL­OP­MENT PLAN SCHEME

Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme August 2019

The next Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan for 2020 Hav­ing adop­ted the first Cairngorms Nation­al Park Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan (LDP) on 27 March 2015, the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity (CNPA) is now pre­par­ing the Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan that will fol­low from 2020. The Nation­al Park Part­ner­ship Plan 2017 – 2022 was pub­lished in June 2017, and this sets the stra­tegic con­text for the 2020 LDP.

We’ll refer to the 2020 LDP as LDP2 for the remainder of this doc­u­ment, which sets out the timetable for pre­par­ing LDP2 and how you can get involved.

Get­ting involved It is essen­tial that people who live, work and have an interest in the Nation­al Park get involved in the pre­par­a­tion of the next LDP. The more people who are involved in the pro­cess, the more likely it is that LDP2 will deliv­er the right devel­op­ments in the right places to meet com­munit­ies’ needs.

The CNPA has been com­mit­ted to encour­aging par­ti­cip­a­tion and this input has been vital to inform the pre­par­a­tion and imple­ment­a­tion of LDP2. We have placed a strong emphas­is on act­ively enga­ging with com­munit­ies with­in the Nation­al Park in an open and trans­par­ent way.

This began with the Main Issues Report, which was pub­lished for con­sulta­tion in Novem­ber 2017, and was fol­lowed by an addi­tion­al con­sulta­tion on the Pro­posed Plan in early 2019. The last stages include an Exam­in­a­tion of the Plan car­ried out by a Report­er appoin­ted by the Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment, after which the LDP may be adopted.

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The Par­ti­cip­a­tion State­ment below out­lines how we com­mit­ted to involving you in the pre­par­a­tion of LDP2. The CNPA will:

1. Ensure people and com­munit­ies are aware of the pro­cess and the oppor­tun­it­ies to com­ment at key stages in the pro­duc­tion of LDP2. We will dis­trib­ute con­sulta­tion inform­a­tion to coun­cil offices, Nation­al Park Author­ity offices and will also dis­sem­in­ate inform­a­tion through Com­munity Coun­cils, our com­munity liais­on officers, and com­munity plan­ning networks.

2. Widely encour­age involve­ment using a range of meth­ods. We will pub­lish inform­a­tion on the CNPA web­site and pub­li­cise the con­sulta­tion pro­cesses through the media, news­pa­per adverts and articles.

3. Pro­duce doc­u­ments which are access­ible, trans­par­ent and writ­ten in jar­gon-free lan­guage which avoids tech­nic­al terms.

4. Pub­lish an updated Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme every year, set­ting out how and when people can get involved in the pre­par­a­tion process.

Bal­later Con­sulta­tion event (Feb 2019) ©CNPA Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme 2019

The CNPA board has agreed to stand­ards which are based on the Nation­al Stand­ards for Com­munity Engage­ment. This means we are com­mit­ted to involving com­munit­ies in all stages of the LDP pro­cess. The CNPA web­site is the best place to start when think­ing about get­ting involved: www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk

Key stages It takes sev­er­al years to pro­duce an LDP and there are a num­ber of stages in the pro­cess. The main stages are shown in the dia­gram below, and the fol­low­ing sec­tions provide an out­line each stage and what they have involved.

A detailed pro­ject plan is in place to make sure we keep to the timetable and deliv­er LDP2 on time. We have included a sum­mar­ised ver­sion of the pro­ject plan at the end of this doc­u­ment for information.

Main stages of Loc­al Devel­op­ment Plan

Main Issues Report

Pro­posed Plan

Exam­in­a­tion

Adop­tion

What’s happened so far?

1. Main Issues Report When? Novem­ber 2017 – March 2018 What was it? Based on evid­ence gathered from a Mon­it­or­ing State­ment and oth­er rel­ev­ant sources, the Main Issues Report out­lined the main plan­ning issues for the Nation­al Park, set­ting out policy and site alloc­a­tion options for address­ing them.

How were people involved? The CNPA held a pub­lic con­sulta­tion on the Main Issues Report and invited the pub­lic and stake­hold­ers to tell us which options best addressed the Nation­al Park’s main issues. The responses to the Main Issues Report con­sulta­tion will be ana­lysed and used to guide the draft­ing of the Pro­posed Plan, and respond­ents informed.

1. Pro­posed Plan When? Janu­ary — April 2019 What is it? This is the draft LDP for the Cairngorms Nation­al Park and set out policies and alloc­a­tions to guide devel­op­ment through­out the area. It also included a Vis­ion State­ment, Spa­tial Strategy and Pro­pos­als Maps.

An Action Pro­gramme was pub­lished along­side the Pro­posed LDP to set out how the policies and pro­pos­als in the Pro­posed LDP will be imple­men­ted. How were people involved? The CNPA held a pub­lic con­sulta­tion on the Pro­posed LDP and asked the pub­lic and stake­hold­ers to express their opin­ion on it.

The responses to the con­sulta­tion were ana­lysed and used to inform changes to the Pro­posed LDP before it is sub­mit­ted for Examination.

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What’s next?

1. Sub­mis­sion and Exam­in­a­tion When? Sub­mis­sion – Septem­ber 2019 Exam­in­a­tion – Autumn/​Winter 2019 What is it? At this stage the Pro­posed LDP is sub­mit­ted to the Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment who will appoint a Report­er to carry out an Exam­in­a­tion into any unre­solved issues. The Report­er will check that the CNPA has con­sul­ted prop­erly before the main part of the Exam­in­a­tion looks to resolve any out­stand­ing objec­tions to the Pro­posed LDP.

At the end of the pro­cess the Report­er will pub­lish an Exam­in­a­tion Report, which will set out a list of recom­men­ded modi­fic­a­tions to the LDP. How to par­ti­cip­ate? This stage is only open to people who made responses to the Pro­posed LDP that the CNPA has been unable to resolve. Most cor­res­pond­ence will take place through writ­ten rep­res­ent­a­tions between the Report­er and the inter­ested parties. The Report­er may hold a Hear­ing ses­sion to help them con­sider any par­tic­u­larly com­plic­ated or con­ten­tious issues.

1. Adop­tion When? April 2020 What is it? Hav­ing received the Exam­in­a­tion Report, the CNPA must modi­fy the LDP in line with the Reporter’s recom­mend­a­tions before noti­fy­ing people who made rep­res­ent­a­tions of the CNPA’s inten­tion to adopt the LDP and send­ing cop­ies to the Scot­tish Government.

The Scot­tish Min­is­ters have 28 days to con­sider the Plan and after this time the CNPA may form­ally adopt the LDP unless Min­is­ters dir­ect a dif­fer­ent action. How to par­ti­cip­ate? The pub­lic will be informed of the adop­tion of LDP2 via the CNPA web­site and press advert. People who made rep­res­ent­a­tions at the Pro­posed Plan stage are informed dir­ectly in writing.

Con­tact details If you want to be kept informed of pro­gress with the devel­op­ment of LDP2, or if you have any ques­tions that you would like answered, please contact:

Plan­ning Team Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity 14 The Square Grant­own-on-Spey PH26 3HG Tel: 01479 873535 Email: planning@​cairngorms.​co.​uk Web­site: www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk

Plan­ning Ser­vice Charter: www​.cairngorms​.co​.uk/​a​u​t​h​o​r​i​t​y​/​p​u​b​l​i​c​a​t​i​o​n​/362/ Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme 2019

Grant­own-on-Spey © Wee Epics

Pro­ject plan sum­mary | | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | | — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| — -| | | QI | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | QI | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | QI | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | QI | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | QI | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | QI | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | | Evid­ence Gath­er­ing | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pre­pare and con­sult on SEA Scop­ing Report | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under­take Call for Sites and Ideas | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pre­pare Mon­it­or­ing State­ment and oth­er sup­port­ing | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | evid­ence (then update through­out pro­cess) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Early engage­ment with Mem­bers and oth­er stake­hold­ers | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | on poten­tial main issue top­ics | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Main Issues Report | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pre­pare MIR and asso­ci­ated assess­ments (SEA, HRA, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | EqIA) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Approv­al of MIR by Com­mit­tee / Board | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pub­lic con­sulta­tion (15 weeks) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pro­posed Plan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ana­lyse MIR com­ments and report to Com­mit­tee | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pre­pare Pro­posed Plan and asso­ci­ated assess­ments (SEA, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HRA, EqIA) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Approv­al of Pro­posed Plan by Com­mit­tee / Board | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pub­lic con­sulta­tion and neigh­bour noti­fic­a­tion | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sub­mis­sion | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pre­pare Sched­ule 4s and report to Com­mit­tee | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sub­mit Pro­posed Plan for exam­in­a­tion | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Exam­in­a­tion | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Respond to fur­ther inform­a­tion requests / attend hear­ings | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | as neces­sary | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pub­lic­a­tion of exam­in­a­tion report | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Report exam­in­a­tion report to Com­mit­tee / Board | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adop­tion | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adopt new LDP | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Devel­op­ment Plan Scheme 2019